For up to date information on Perl 6 you should look at the Synopsis.

To summarize the current state, for just takes a block and feeds as many scalars as needed into that block.

The block can either be a "pointy" block: 

for @list -> $a {
    # here $a is local'ized in the perl 5 sense
}

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Or you can use the "weird scoping" twigil for placeholder arguments: 

for @list {
    say $^a; # $^a is only available in this block
}

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I think that just reusing a lexical variable if there is one available doesn't fit very will into the current concept of blocks and captures.

Perhaps this is one of the cases where weird/unusal scoping deserves its own twigil: 

my $a;
for @list -> $=a {
    # $=a is the "reused" version of $a
}
# here $a has the last value of $=a

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I still don't know how much effort that is, how well it fits into the current specs, and if it's worth the trouble. But it's an interesting idea ;-)

In reply to Re^4: Duh. 'my' scope in if else blocks. (implicit) by moritz
in thread Duh. 'my' scope in if else blocks. by gam3

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